BRADRAPTOR30

I just bought the castle side winder 1/10 sport brushless combo. My problem is I cant set it up right. I hold my throttle down on my transmitter, then turn on speed control. it beeps for the full throttle but doesnt for the full brake or neautral. what am I doing wrong. some help please. I am new to this electric onroad stuff.
Brad

Dirt_hawg

Mabey reverse your throttle switch on your transmitter..Are you running a futaba if so thats what it is....

BRADRAPTOR30

I am running spectrum. if its the wrong way wouldnt it go backwards, when cut on? it drives fine just doesnt have any brakes.

smaxx311

have you took it to your lhs yet?

BRADRAPTOR30

thanks everyone took to lhs and they fixed

t9dragon

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So what was wrong with it?

samguan

You aren't doing anything wrong; it's the electronics you chose to install in your touring car. In this case, the arming time for the speed control is not long enough for the Spektrum radio system. When the Spektrum Radio is swtiched on, it needs a moment to "talk" to the receiver to locate a clear frequency. This ends up being longer than the default arming time of the Sidewinder speed control, which is 1.5 seconds. This issue is easy to resolve thanks to the programmability Castle Creations builds into its speed controls. The arming time in the Sidewinder is adjustable and can be simply accessed with Castle Creations Castle Link. The default arming time is 1.5 seconds, try switching to 2.5 seconds.

I've had this problem before with it too....Even the guys at my LHS couldn't figure out...I found the solution in Radio Control Car Action magazine...it was a coincidence, I was reading it and found out about this problem and finally fixed it after purchasing the Castle Link.

Hope this helps if it happens again next time.